Abstract Heresies

The Lisp Machine Listener had an electric close parenthesis. When the user typed a close parenthesis, and this was the close parenthesi...

The MIT CADR Lisp Machine had a number of static RAMs that were used in the processor for various things such as state machines and regi...

The first editor I learned how to use was TECO on a line printer. You’d print the line of code you were on, then you’d issue commands to...